Around the World (AI) · Daft Punk

121 bars of 4/4 at 120 BPM, about 4:02 of playing, on crash, hi-hat, snare, kick and hi-hat foot.

32 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it.

TEMPO

120 BPM

TIME

4/4

BARS

121

LENGTH

4:02

DIFFICULTY

32/100

kick and crashes through bars 1-10, hi-hat through bars 11-30, snare through bars 31-35, hi-hat through bars 36-40, snare through bars 41-55 and hi-hat through bars 56-100, and 3 more changes after that.

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 11-30, 36-40 and 56-65, and 3 more places -- 48.8% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and most of the song is already under your hands.

    11
    1e+a2e+a3e+a4e+a
HH |--x---x---x---x-|
SD |----x-------x---|
BD |x-------x-------|

1 fill to learn, played 1 time: bar 121.

It cuts the song into 29 exercises -- the grooves, the fills, and the joins between sections, which is where players actually come off -- and puts them in the order a teacher would. Each one opens on a reduction you can already play and adds the notes back a rung at a time, with a tempo to reach and a gate to pass before the next.

1. The grooves the song is built on -- B, A -- 5 exercises, about 34 minutes.
2. Bars 27-39 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
3. Bars 64-71 -- 4 exercises, about 27 minutes.
4. Through the Chorus 4 and Part E -- 4 exercises, about 28 minutes. Open above.
5. Bars 89-100 -- 5 exercises, about 30 minutes.
6. Bars 97-109 -- 5 exercises, about 24 minutes.
7. The whole song -- 3 exercises, about 15 minutes.